Jonathan Wurtele

Jonathan S. Wurtele earned his undergraduate degrees in Physics and Mathematics, as well as a Ph.D. in Physics, from UC Berkeley. After spending a decade at MIT, he returned to UC Berkeley in 1995, where he is currently a Professor of Physics. His research spans plasma and accelerator theory, and antihydrogen physics. Prof. Wurtele is a member of the ALPHA collaboration at CERN, which synthesizes, traps, and conducts precision measurements on antihydrogen to investigate fundamental symmetries between matter and antimatter. He has been a Foreign Research Fellow at Japan’s Institute of Space and Astronautical Science and spent sabbaticals at the Hebrew University and the Weizmann Institute of Science. Outside of conventional physics, he contributed to the Berkeley Earth temperature study, and during a sabbatical at NYU’s Center for Urban Science and Progress he worked on the science of cities. Prof. Wurtele is an APS Fellow and co-recipient of the John Dawson Award for Excellence in Plasma Physics Research.